September marks the sixtieth anniversary of the first screenings, at the Supercinema in Florence, of what should have been just a C-grade film, signed by an unknown Bob Robertson and which, instead, became a monument in the history of cinema. For a Fistful of Dollars won, day after day, a vast audience, imposed a genre, the spaghetti western, that would make the Italian film industry the second largest in the world. It was a film that changed the lives of Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood and Ennio Morricone forever.

The film tells the story of a lone gunman, Joe, who arrives in San Miguel, a town on the border between the United States and Mexico divided by the struggle for a monopoly between two families, the Rojos and the Baxters, who trade in alcohol and arms respectively. Pretending to sell himself to the former, Joe actually plays a double game with the aim of setting them against each other and profiting from the mutual elimination of the antagonistic forces. Having discovered the deception, the Rojos torture Joe who, having saved himself in extremis, delivers the last blow in a spectacular duel.